Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 31
Two of the young chiefs were splendid specimens of savage manhood.
Who acts: young chiefs · What happens: be · To what, where: Two
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young chiefs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 specimens | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chiefs | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chiefs | amod |
| 5 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 specimens | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 specimens | cop |
| 7 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 specimens | amod |
| 8 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Two | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 manhood | case |
| 10 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 manhood | amod |
| 11 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 specimens | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Two | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young chiefs | of splendid specimens; of savage manhood | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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